Buckbrush
Ceanothus cuneatus
Buckbrush is one of the toughest, most widespread California ceanothus, an evergreen, nitrogen-fixing chaparral shrub smothered in white bloom in spring. Drought-proof and alive with pollinators.
- Family
- Rhamnaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 3–8 ft
- Spacing
- 4–8 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- neutral
- Bloom
- March, April
- Bloom colors
- white
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, butterflies, songbirds, larval host
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~45 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- specimen, hedge or screen, foundation
- Native states
- CA, OR